/pihai(ya)-/, pi-ha-ia-
‘glory (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 4004
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/pihai(ya)-/, pi-ha-ia-
‘glory (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Maraş, dating to the first half of the 10th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | /pihaiya/ | pi-ha-ia | MARAŞ 8, §4 (Maraş) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Even though this word is attested but once, its phonological interpretation is quite certain. It belongs to the family around /pihamma/i-/ ‘glorified (?)’ and therefore has cognates in CLuw. as well, cf. below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The sole attestation of this word in HLuw. occurs in a context whose intelligibility is hampered due to fragmentation. The meaning assignment is therefore tentative and mostly based on the semantic interpretations of the other words from the same family, viz. /pihamma/i-/ ‘glorified (?)’ and /pihassa-/ ‘vigour (?), glory (?)’; the attested plural may well be a collective rather than a count plural. At MARAŞ 8, §4 reads: a-wa/i pi-ha-ia hi?-nu-ha, approx. /a=wa pihaiya hinuhha/, meaning ‘(I found the river-land of the town Gurgum empty), and I moved pihaya (to it)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:253). The cited passage is, after a largely obliterated clause, followed by how the author brought resources to the place again, suggesting that a meaning from the domains of glory and strength is very likely, but further textual evidence may result in a fine-tuning of the interpretation.
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1.1.5Stem
The word is a neuter gender noun, a substantivised adjective in /-i(ya)-/, as pointed out by Yakubovich apud Sasseville 2018a:304 incl. n. 3. The base noun */piha-/ is as such unattested in HLuw., but besides appellative derivations, it has also been used for building personal names, cf. e.g. EDHIL:674f. and Yakubovich 2010d:263.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. */piha-/.